Dec 30, 2009
The Oxford Companion to English Literature | à Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
à Beckett, Gilbert
Abbott
(
1811
–
56
),
educated at Westminster School and called to the bar at Gray's Inn. He was the editor of Figaro in London and on the original staff of
Punch
. He was for many years a leader writer on
The Times
and the
Morning Herald
, and was appointed a Metropolitan police magistrate in
1849
. He wrote many plays and humorous works, including a Comic History of England (
1847
–
8
), a Comic History of Rome (
1852
), and a Comic Blackstone (
1846
).
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